Apologies for the posting haitus these last few weeks, Friends of the Stars have been in the studio recording their 2nd LP, “Faiths Meat Kiosk”, and there will be more on that soon…
Here is Episode 17 of the ever-popular Friends of the Stars Podcasts. This one is called “Things To Do In Denver When You’re Robson” and continues in the fine tradition of it’s predecessors containing as it does lots of great tunes and two blokes swearing
at each other. If it ain’t fucking broke, and all that…
This Episode finds Executive Producer Robson and Craig discussing the… Read the rest
Categories: Collaboration,Internet Doohickeys,Music,podcast,Promotion
Tagged: Andy Garcia, Dave Lee Travis, Dennis Wilson, Denver, Dexy Midnight Runners, Snoop, Snoop Doggy Dogg, Submarines, The Beastie Boys, The Bee Gees, The Jackson 5, Things To Do In Denver When You're Dead
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- June 5, 2009 – 9:39 pm
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- By admin
Epsiode 14 of the Friends of the Stars Podcast is here….
FOTS-POD#14 “Robson The Headless Thompson Gunner” follows the tried and tested Music + Swearing formula that has proven so successful in previous broadcasts. So successful has this been in fact that interweb subscribers to this rubbish now number more than 20..Who are you people? Seriously. Maybe you’d like to get in touch and ask Executive Producer Robson a question? Email info@friendsofthestars.co.uk with what’s on your mind.
This episode features music from Percy Sledge, The Beach Boys and Frank Sinatra whilst the boys disucss The Movies Of Stephen Seagal, Front… Read the rest
Categories: Collaboration,Internet Doohickeys,podcast,Promotion
Tagged: BBC Radio 4, Beach Boys, Captain, EC/PC, Elton John, Frank Sinatra, Mark Lawson, mp3, Percy Sledge, podcast, Stephen Seagal, Warren Zevon, Webb Pierce
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- March 10, 2009 – 5:52 am
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Thanks to all those kind souls who have added tunes to our Spotify playlist. There are currently 27 tunes in the list, from artists as diverse as Genesis, Hijack, Devo and…erm…Rolf Harris. The list remains open to new selections.
To add to the playlist you need a Spotify account. If you already have an account, click here
Categories: Apropos of Nowt,Collaboration,Interactive Tools,Internet Doohickeys,Music
Tagged: Collaboration, mp3, Music, playlist, spotify
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- January 14, 2009 – 5:39 pm
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- By admin
We’ve created a collaborative playlist on Spotify.
Craig kicked things off with “Showdown” by ELO and “Put A Donk On It” by The Blackout Crew…..let’s see what kind of monster this playlist grows into from here.
To add to the playlist you need a Spotify account. If you already have an account, click here
To find out more about Spotify, visit their site.
If you’ve added a tune or two, let us know which was your choice by leaving a comment.
Categories: Apropos of Nowt,Collaboration,Interactive Tools,Internet Doohickeys,Music
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- January 13, 2009 – 12:23 pm
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- By admin
One of the best online music resources to emerge in the last couple of years has to be The Hype Machine. For the uninitiated, The Hype Machine is an aggregator of MP3 music blogs that allows punters to search for blogs and websites that have both written about a particular band and also made an MP3 available ‘for evaluation purposes’.
Type in the name of a band and it returns a list that you can plough through and listen to right there on the page, or alternatively follow the links to the original sites and read more. Think of it like a Google that returns nothing but music and reviews,… Read the rest
Categories: Interactive Tools,Internet Doohickeys,Music,Promotion,Reviews
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- January 6, 2009 – 9:04 am
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- By admin
We’ve recently engaged the services of Jake Dubber, a very talented young man indeed, who will be looking after the back-end and general design of the site.
He’ll be making some changes to the look and feel of this place, so things might look a bit strange for a while before he settles on something we all like.
His first task, however, will be to unravel the massive ball of string that is the mess we’ve made of things on the server. Once he’s done that, and providing we haven’t gone to jail for using… Read the rest
Categories: Collaboration,Images,Internet Doohickeys
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- January 4, 2009 – 5:01 pm
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- By admin
It’s almost the end of 2008 and End-of-Year lists will be popping up all over the interweb, so here’s me adding mine to the growing online pile
Mine is a random mixture, shown in no particular order, of some of the cool/weird things that happened to me in 2008. It also has some of the things the band got up to, some of the music I happened to like and also just a little bit about some of the interweb doohickeys that caught my eye.
Here goes…..
1: THE RISE OF FLEET FOXES
This time last year no-one had heard of them, then back in March Campbell played me… Read the rest
Categories: Apropos of Nowt,Birmingham,Collaboration,Images,Internet Doohickeys,Live,Music,podcast
- Published:
- December 29, 2008 – 12:12 pm
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- By Craig
